Leading Underground poster designer E McKnight Kauffer’s designs are stunning with red with orange slashes playing black and grey.

Jonathan Payn is doddering as the Red King and Jenna Roberts suitably attentive as his Queen although I did rather wish that the choreography mimicked chess moves and found the piece a little long and dated.

After a rather lengthy interval as the checkered flooring is lifted, is the short but beautifully fluid Symphonic Variations, Frederick Ashton’s signature work created in 1946.
Danced to César Franck's score (with Jonathan Higgins in excellent form on the piano), six dancers take the stage for a deceptively simplistic classical ballet.

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